Makarand Kulkarni

* Around 20 Years of experience in Mostly in R&D and product Development and Management. * Around 4 years of experience in Data Centre Transformation / ITIS Management. * Worked extensively in full lifecycle of project "Data Centre Transformation" Framework. This has brought tremendous business for TCS in IT Infrastructure Management. * Extensively contributed in coming up with building framework for above. * Tremendous contribution in Patents / Papers for different areas in Data Center Transformation. * Extensively worked in Model driven Development * Led MasterCraft productline and new launches. * Worked extensively on different technology platforms. * Worked on Development of new innovations. * Managed customer facing engagements. * Currently working on developing Solutions for Infrastructure Optimization group. Specialties: * Project & Product Management, Research and Development, Managing Innovations, Model Driven Development, Open Source platforms, Object Oriented Technologies. * C++, Different Flavours of Unix, Java, J2EE,Beans - JSF, JSP, richfaces, primefaces, Swing, JBPM, aj4( Ajax for JSF), Tomahawk - JBOSS Platforms: IBM zOS, AIX, Solaris, Linux, HP-UX, Windows Middleware: CICS Databases: DB2, Oracle Project Management Tools like MS Project